Liking this Evolve ability. Creatures that enter the battlefield with X amount of +1/+1 counters? Sounds like a key that breaks the lock.
Posted By:
TtothaOtothadoubleD
(1/24/2013 9:20:01 PM)
With a Zephyr Spirit, it becomes a Mahamoti Djinn!
I love how Wizards tried to make the most useless card in Ravnica feel relevant.
Posted By:
Majinkajisan
(1/24/2013 10:14:49 PM)
My ears are ringing just looking at the art of this thing "SCREEEEEEEEH!!!"
How about this for a cute sequence of plays:
Turn one: Steam Vents untapped, Cloudfin Raptor
Turn two: Mountain, Burning-Tree Emissary, Lightning Mauler bonded to Emissary and swing for six on turn 2.
Posted By:
lorendorky
(1/25/2013 11:46:02 AM)
Amazing creature! Hell, Id play it in any remotely agressive blue deck. At worst its a storm crow for 
cheaper
Posted By:
Kaeru_Jones
(1/26/2013 4:35:23 AM)
Hummm so let me get this straight, if you play a regular 1/1 token, this becomes a 1/2
And then put a 2/2, you now have a 2/3 flyer
I like it.
Posted By:
GearLeader
(1/26/2013 10:14:40 AM)
Did great at the prerelease, I got him to 4/5 several times. Even if he comes in late game you can bioshift onto him from some utility creature like Fathom Mage to keep things moving.
Posted By:
_Wicker_
(1/26/2013 7:47:05 PM)
4/5. "Its a bird, its a drake, no its..WTF!"
Posted By:
chrome_dome
(1/28/2013 4:31:21 AM)
Cards like this are obviously amazing on the curve in your opening hand and not good to actually draw. Cards like fathom mage and zegana can draw enough cards to mollify the late-game draw of this though. Simic hardly ever has to top-deck as a result, so the nightmare of topping this late-game I'm not really concerned about.
1cc evolve is crazy.
Posted By:
Hercynian
(2/2/2013 9:20:58 PM)
I still love this card ALOT even though I just had my view on evolve crushed last night. Actually re-reading the effect I can see how I was wrong. I was thinking if either the power OR the toughness was higher than either it's power or toughness it would evolve. Example: Cloudfin Raptor, I play one and then I play another, because his toughness is higher than his power I would then trigger evolve. I am sad to find out that I was wrong, this is much fairer than my interpretation of the effect. Far less powerful than I had envisioned it but it still gets an A+ in my book to power up the more you fill out your curve.
Posted By:
wpken
(2/12/2013 5:40:56 PM)
"mommy, mommy, I want a bird," says the sister.
"but mommy, I want a kite," says the brother.
"honey, we don't have the money for both." Says the husband to his wife.
"I guess we'll just have to get a cloudfin raptor." Says the mother.
"yay!" And everyone's happy.
Posted By:
Oatbran
(2/18/2013 5:16:22 PM)